Taxpayers Switching Tax Preparers

2. The method of claim 1, wherein at least one of the automatically disassociating or the automatically associating occurs in an access table.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the taxpayer account includes digital tax information in a tax document collection data unit.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising extracting, by the one or more processors, tax data from digital tax information in the taxpayer account by using at least one of the optical character recognition or the text layer extraction.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the obtaining the list of the prior tax return items comprises at least one of obtaining the list of the prior tax return items by automatically detecting the tax return items from the prior year tax return or obtaining the list of the prior tax return items from a tax return preparation system.

11. The method of claim 1, further comprising receiving, by the one or more processors and from the taxpayer device, at least one of an adjustment of tax data or an adjustment of a field of a tax form.

14. The method of claim 1, further comprising providing, by the one or more processors and to the taxpayer device, functionality for at least one of signing a tax form, signing an E-File Authorization form for a tax form, paying a tax preparer invoice, formatting digital tax information in a tax document collection data format usable by a tax preparation system or making tax payments to tax authorities.

15. The method of claim 1, further comprising obtaining and storing, by the one or more processors, an internet protocol (IP) address of the taxpayer device for verification.

16. The method of claim 1, further comprising downloading, by the one or more processors using a document download unit, at least one of digital tax information or a tax return to at least one of the taxpayer device, the first tax preparer device or the second tax preparer device.

18. The method of claim 1, wherein the disassociating further comprises at least one of reconfiguring a tax document collection data unit or encrypting digital tax information with a new key.